Manitoba

Manitoba is a province of Canada, with Winnipeg serving as its capital. The region was a part of Rupert's Land from 1670 to 1870, and Hudson's Bay Company fur traders arrived in the late 17th century. Fur traders and the local Native American tribes would intermarry, giving rise to a new culture, the mixed-race and Francophone Metis people. In 1869, as the Canadian government negotiated the purchase of Manitoba from the HBC, the Metis people under Louis Riel rose in rebellion due to fears that the Anglophone Canadians from Ontario would suppress Francophone rights. The rebellion left only one man (a man plotting to kill Riel) dead, and the Metis succeeded in establishing their own provisional government that would evolve into the provincial government of Manitoba. In 2017, Manitoba had a population of 1,328,346 people.